Bria G
It's a pretty enjoyable movie if you just clear your head when you think about the fact that this is a follow-up to Interview with the Vampire, and that its changed/left out a lot of the original story written by Anne Rice. It's definitely one of those things where the book is better, SO MUCH BETTER than the movie. And I will admit that I hate how they watered down such a rich and interesting story. So, this would be a 4-star rating with all of that considered, but this movie is so nostalgic for me and I love the soundtrack so much that I have to give it that last star. While Queen of the Damned isn't the best movie, it stayed with me since the first time I watched it well over a decade ago.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
10/30/24
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Julian S
With its lifeless tone, subpar visual effects, and mediocre metal score, “Queen of the Damned” fails to match its predecessor, “Interview With the Vampire.” However, fans of Anne Rice’s books may appreciate Townsend’s performance, as he effectively captures Lestat’s egocentric essence.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
10/05/24
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John C
It says on the front cover of the DVD of ‘Queen of the Damned’ that it is the sequel to ‘Interview With a Vampire’ – you remember that – the smash hit movie, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Everyone loved that. It was a hit! Unfortunately, ‘Queen of the Damned’ is only a sequel as it’s using some of the same characters (characters, not actors – there’s a difference) and set in the same universe, so to speak. Basically, it’s not really a sequel. It’s another vampire story written by Anne Rice following some of the characters who you might have seen before. Don’t expect to see Tom or Brad in this one.
However, just because it doesn’t really follow on, doesn’t make it a bad thing – a disjointed thing, but not a bad thing. But, in some ways, it’s not really the film’s fault. It’s about a vampire who has got disillusioned with drinking people’s blood over the centuries and has gone to sleep for hundreds of years. Now he’s woken in the modern age and decided to ‘out’ all the other vampires and their blood-sucking ways. It goes without saying that the rest of the vamps don’t take kindly to his outspoken ways and decide to take him out. So where does the Queen come into it?
She doesn’t. That much. Unfortunately she’s only in it for two scenes because the young actress playing her tragically died while the film was being made, leaving the story lacking what should have been a big part of its central element.
Plus it doesn’t really do the book justice. I haven’t read the book. I’m one of the many who just watches the film, but I’ve generally browsed through enough internet message boards to realise that a lot of die-hard fans of the source material didn’t appreciate the transition to film.
So, it’s got its fair amount of negative points. And yet it’s actually quite good. Not great, but somehow highly watchable (if you’re into vampires in general). It should all be quite campy and yet Stuart Townsend plays the lead vamp pretty well and is actually fun to watch. Aaliyah, for the few scenes she’s in, sizzles as the Queen of the undead. It would have been pretty good if she’d have been able to show what she can do all the way through the film.
It’s probably not a film you’re going to want to see again and again, but if you’re not totally bored with vampires after binge-watching box sets of ‘True Blood’ then take a look at vampires rocking out on stage and fighting each other in the chorus.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
09/24/24
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Rich H
Great movie, the perfect length and action packed
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
07/13/24
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Suri B
Aww its just So deep passionate ... Magical Aura.. coolness. (&damnSexyOfCourse)
This movie and the energy of it is so INTENSE.<3
And I could feel their longing and lestat's urge to "kill" that precious innoncent girl.
Its rlly my favourite movie. (Besides the shortfilm necrophile passion 😂♥️)
I really cant understand the bad 'recensions here o.O
Guess they maybe expected a TYPICAL movie or so .. Or maybe they arent that passionate themself and thats why they dont understand and FEEL that magical sht..:/?
And this movie only works so fantasticly BECAUSE of the FEELable PASSION.
Thats what that movie thrives (on)
If someone cant feel it, then yea, maybe then the movie might be boring
(Just speculating/tryin to understand how people could not love this masterpiece xD)
Btw, this has NOTHING to do with films like twilight. I find twilight boring and weak.
How does someone in the comments think..Oh wow, right, both movies are about vampires 😂
Thats all. They are made completely different . And this here is a million times better. +much more coolness.
Time runs fast watching this movie.. I wished it was longer. XD I adore the way its made so much. The music (for example korn) FITs just PERFECTLY.
Souw, noch kurz was auf deutsch:
Coole Szenen, perfekte musikalische Untermalung.
Leidenschaftlich.
Intensiv.. Ein Film über starkes Verlangen das man fühlen kann. Der Zwiespalt zwischen ihrem Leben/Unbekümmertheit/Gesundheit=Vernunft und kaum kontrollierbarer Sehnsucht, ihrem Wunsch sich hinzugeben, wie sie sich (ihre Adern) anbietet, obwohl es ihre Unschuld und alles kostet.. wunderschön gemacht.
Zudem lauter heiße Darsteller und Mädelz ^^
Für bdsm-mädchen sicher attraktiv, aber garkein Vergleich zu twilight oder so 'n sche*zz xD
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/02/24
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Jacob B
A "so bad, it's good" "follow-up" to Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned has bad acting, laughable accents, forgettable characters, lame special effects and a ridiculous premise that I'm surprised that it seemingly wants to be taken at face value, rather than ironically. On the plus side, the soundtracks fine, albeit a product of its time and there is something bittersweet in seeing Aaliyah, who doesn't show up in the flesh until an hour into the film, for the last time in the wake of her tragic death a few months before the film came out. Not that it's some amazing posthumous dedication unlike The Crow or Furious 7. In conclusion, if you get enough friends with the right mindset, you'll have a hell of a time laughing AT, rather than WITH, a movie that can be best described as a poor man's Buffy for the MTV crowd. The then-reasonably popular Blade movies, Queen of the Damned is not.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/08/24
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